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"Let me see that coin," said Lorry, eagerly taking the silver piece from the porter's hand. "I never saw one like it before. Greek, it looks to me, but I can't make a thing out of these letters. She gave it to you?" "Yas, suh las' evenin'. A high time on seventy cents! That's reediculous, ain't it?" demanded the porter scornfully. "I'll give you a dollar for it.
"It certainly isn't a boy," declared her friend, with exasperation. "He'll get away from us. That is a fast car he is driving." "Wait!" exclaimed Ruth again, and as Helen brought her machine to an abrupt stop Aunt Alvirah was heard saying: "Now, ain't that reediculous? Ain't it reediculous?"
She was followed by her husband. Both began apologizing profusely for the questions of the sheriff. "But land's sakes alive," exclaimed the farmer's wife, "I declar ter goodness, we've bin so flustered thet I don' know no more than a wet hen. My brother, that's Mr. Mortlake, was dead sot on it bein' one of you folks, but I knew that was reediculous."
"Cap'n Rose," the matriarch proceeded, as in the earnestness of her indignation she arose, trembling, in her seat and stood with her palsied and shaking hands on the board, "Cap'n Rose, yer conduct with this here Mis' Betsey Ann Blossom has been somethin' reediculous! It's been disgraceful!"
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